Does anyone have an aquarium?

Fbone · 02-09-2025, 10:24 PM

Fish or reptiles?

I started up a 3-gallon tank and stocked it with live plants and two guppies.

They really are a joy to watch.

cromag · 02-09-2025, 10:35 PM

I had an aquarium with fish years ago when I was in high school. In the 80s I converted a hexagonal aquarium into a terrarium with a pothos and a couple of green anoles (American chameleons) -- both were low-maintenance residents. I agree, it was great to get home from work and unwind while watching them bask. The young lady I was seeing at the time -- now my wife -- was not a fan and eventually she won out.

Sirtel · 02-10-2025, 05:29 AM

We had an aquarium when I was a child. It was nice. Unfortunately I'm too lazy to keep one now. Too much work maintaining it.

acanthicus · 02-11-2025, 12:29 PM

Currently I have 2 fresh water and 1 salt water tank. My two catfishes are 25 and 24 years old! Not the one in my avatar. That was my first catfish, named Ottilie, and he died a long time ago with 15 years, after producing lots of very cute babies. In my little saltwater tank, I have Artemia salina. I breed them as food, but when they get bigger I keep them. Fascinating to watch them swim through the water, very elegantly. I have 5 different types of shrimps. Black bees, a brown kind of red fire, amano, which are very clever and mischievous, and two types of fan shrimps.

Fbone · 02-11-2025, 06:10 PM

With all those shrimp ... especially the amano ... I bet your tank is clean and algae free.

acanthicus · 02-12-2025, 10:48 AM

Yes, they are very effective. The fan shrimp tank is not clean, because I feed them twice a day. Recently, I put some Amanos inside and I hope it will be cleaner in the future.

Section8 · 02-12-2025, 11:22 AM

I have a 3 year old 75gal planted tank. It has become my retirement hobby.

DNSB · 02-12-2025, 04:38 PM

I still have several aquariums in my basement from when my daughter was living at home. Unfond memories of the stench generated by baking aquarium gravel for 45 minutes at 125°C after she babysat a friend's goldfish (it was in it's own bowl but she used the same tools and transferred an disease to her fish). After we sterilized everything in sight, she picked up 6 feeder goldfish just to make sure everything was okay. 4 years later she took the big aquarium with the 4 surviving feeder goldfish and her other fish to her new place. I'm assuming that even though they were now 10-15cm long, they were still feeder goldfish.

Fbone · 02-13-2025, 12:42 AM

Comet goldfish can grow big and live up to 20 years.

DNSB · 02-13-2025, 01:58 AM

Feeder goldfish are basically mongrels. Of the four that survived, one appeared to be close to the standard comet goldfish, one appeared to have black moor ancestry but closer to a comet body shape, one appeared to have a Shubunkin's calico look but a slimmer body and the last looked like a comet but with a blotchy colouring. One of ones that died after a couple of years had a tail that reminded me of a fantail.

02-09-2025, 10:24 PM	#1
Fbone Is that a sandwich? Posts: 8,261 Karma: 101696762 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: Nook Glowlight Plus	Does anyone have an aquarium? Fish or reptiles? I started up a 3-gallon tank and stocked it with live plants and two guppies. They really are a joy to watch.

02-11-2025, 12:29 PM	#4
acanthicus Connoisseur Posts: 80 Karma: 82780 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: PRS-505, PRS-650, PRS-350, PRS-T3	Shrimps and some fishes Currently I have 2 fresh water and 1 salt water tank. My two catfishes are 25 and 24 years old! Not the one in my avatar. That was my first catfish, named Ottilie, and he died a long time ago with 15 years, after producing lots of very cute babies. In my little saltwater tank, I have Artemia salina. I breed them as food, but when they get bigger I keep them. Fascinating to watch them swim through the water, very elegantly. I have 5 different types of shrimps. Black bees, a brown kind of red fire, amano, which are very clever and mischievous, and two types of fan shrimps.

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